A new design of rammed earth walls with built-in rope nets with its construction technology was proposed. Two specimens were built by way of the new construction technology and traditional construction technology, with the mechanical behavior and seismic behavior studied. Vertical loading and low cycle reversed horizontal loading were carried out on specimens aimed to study the failure process, failure mode, hysteretic curve and skeleton curve feature. The horizontal bearing capacity and deformation capacity of the walls also were studied, with the influence of the built-in rope nets analyzed. Test results indicated that compared with the traditional construction method, the horizontal bearing capacity and deformation capacity of the new design wall was improved by built-in rope nets construction method. Thus, with the built-in rope nets rammed earth walls, the integrity of the raw-soil structure houses is strengthened, and the seismic behavior improved.
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New construction methods were put forward to apply to rammed earth walls of raw-soil structure. Three specimens were built by the way of traditional horizontal layer, alternate layer and add-pin-key construction methods, the mechanical behavior and seismic behavior of which were studied. Vertical loading and low cycle reversed horizontal loading were carried out on specimens to study the failure process, failure mode, hysteretic curve and skeleton curve feature. The horizontal bearing capacity and deformation capacity of the walls also were studied, the influence of different construction methods on which was analyzed. Test results indicate that, compared with the traditional construction method, the horizontal bearing capacity and deformation capacity of the wall can be improved by alternate layer construction method, and the deformation capacity of the wall can be improved by add-pin-key construction method.
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